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What about making Pulse weapons AP4? I mean, they do fire plasma projectiles... and in-game, other plasma weapons are AP2 (even Tau ones).

It would also make them slightly better against horde armies, like Nids or Orks.

Your Friend Doctor Robert wrote:The Shas'O should have an Orbital Bombardment(S 10 AP 1 Large Blast, BS does not affect scatter, Once per game) As well as improved Wargear Choices over his subordinates(perhaps a single Railgun, taking up two Hardpoints on his Battlesuit?)

I say that Ethereals need this more than Shas'O's so that there might be an actual reason to take them, but other things probably need to be done for ethereals as well.

I like your idea for a Distraction Drone, I also have an idea for a new type of drone:

Targeting Drone: This drone can only be taken by vehicles, once released from the vehicle it can move as if it was a separate unit but does not confer any kill points or victory points and is destroyed when it's 'owner' vehicle is destroyed. In the shooting phase, a vehicle with a Targeting Drone can use the drone's line of sight instead of its own to target a unit, if the targeted unit is blocked from line of sight from the 'owner' vehicles then they get a 4+ cover save.

I'm not sure what it should cost, but it's effectively Hammerheads shooting around corners, I don't really know much about balance though.

So the H-head would shoot through the terrain?

ZeroSamurai wrote:I'm not sure what it should cost, but it's effectively Hammerheads shooting around corners, I don't really know much about balance though.

This is terribly overpowered as is, maybe put the tank at -1 to Bs? Also, around 40 points I think.

S_P

It doesn't make sense. There is no possible way that the Hammerhead would be able to hit a target around a corner unless it fired straight through a wall, but that could potentially lead to the ammunition fired being deflected, buried in particularly strong terrain or losing power after striking terrain and not being able to strike the enemy with enough force to do damage.

The only way it'd work is if the drone itself had a railgun duct taped to it.

I also don't see how it'd work if the target was behind another vehicle (like a space marine behind a land raider); you'd be forced to hit the vehicle first, which isn't like shooting through terrain.

What if tau get deployable turrets?

like the FW ones? they are very good models and can be used successfully, but are not equal to hammerheads and broadsides.



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Tau are like a wet noodle in close combat; it doesn't take a lot more than a slight breeze to knock them down, but you might get unlucky and that noodle might whip you in the eye.

Sigged!